The dedication and stamina of the worker ant were celebrated in Aesop's Fables - in contrast to the lazy, singing grasshopper.

Dame Jane Goodall, the celebrated ethologist considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, will give a series of public talks in New Zealand next month.

Takahe are famous for one of the most dramatic comebacks in conservation history — but they're not out of the woods yet.

It's been a bad morning for Wellington Zoo. One of its new cheetahs has died and an investigation has been launched into how a toddler got into a tiger enclosure.

British politician George Osborne's cat Freya was chauffeur-driven back to her Downing Street home after being found more than a kilometre away.

The owners of four dogs which attacked a 7-year-old Japanese girl in Murupara are seeking diversion.

Steam rises from a group of Kaimanawa horses during the biannual muster.

The police and SPCA have carried out a search of a Raglan property as part of an investigation into how the bodies of two cats ended up dead in rubbish bags.

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A random act of kindness turned into a nightmare for a woman who had stopped to help a cat she had almost run over.

Courageous Kiwis put their bodies on the line going after quarry including wild pigs, stags and great whites. But in this country no form of hunting or fishing could possibly match the dangers faced long ago by sealers.

The Government will bring forward a total ban on the finning of dead sharks by two years in response to widespread public concern about the gruesome practice.

Environmentalists say trees that will support a new zipline tourism attraction on the Sunshine Coast are koala habitats.

The more visitors within a five-metre radius of the koalas, the more vigilance behaviour koalas displayed, which puts them in an alert state.

Cats are cuter than babies and dogs when it comes to the popularity of videos, new research shows.

Thousands of sheep in Australia are believed to have died after eating a poisonous plant that makes them “bash their heads on posts and rocks until they crack open”.

Police had to be called after an Ashmore presented its owner with a 5g bag of cannabis.

Calls are being made to remove dissections from first-year courses as the killing of animals at universities comes under fresh scrutiny.

A Hawkes Bay farmer was ordered to pay $7000 to the SPCA and $529 in reparation following one of the worst cases of neglect an SPCA inspector said he had seen.

The cat population at Auckland SPCA has reached critical levels and families willing to adopt pets are urgently needed.

Eighty native birds have been caught on Little Barrier Island and delivered to a new wildlife reserve in the Hauraki Gulf.

here are clearly a lot of arachnophobes. But do they know why they fear spiders? Can they do something to control those fears?

An Auckland restaurant serving duck eggs with developing embryo has been cleared by the SPCA for possible cruelty against unhatched ducklings.

Scientists have discovered a pre-historic mainland species of sea lion thought to have been wiped out by Polynesian settlers and replaced by the modern NZ sea lion.